d./p. various; w.
David VG Davies; Cast: Juliette Strange, Nathan Head, Jade Wallis, Robert
Chapman, Mark Ivan Benfield, Oliver Malam, Asleigh Gloyne, Simon Craig, Jenny
Miller, Rami Hilmi, Susan Adriensen, Vikki Spit, Sandra Veronica Stanczyk,
Victoria Broom, Emily Booth, Rudi Barrow
Unashamedly sleazy and sadistic anthology of sexual violence
executive produced by Davies, based on stories written by Blaize-Alix Szanto
when she was just 12/13. ‘Stories’ is stretching it as 10 tales crammed into
110 minutes, mostly based around extended scenes of bloody violence (with some
good prosthetic effects), leaves little room for actual narrative. Recurring
elements include knife rape, incest, VHS tapes and the Damocles Foundation, an
organisation also in Davies’ Monitor.
Originally planned as linked stories with a wrap-around tale, there are still
vestigial connections between some segments. Shot between January 2013 and
September 2015 by ten directors including Szanto herself, who was 20 when this
was finally released. Individual segments played festivals as shorts. Strictly
for connoisseurs of gore.
Details: 'The Beer Cellar' (Szanto): pub-owning couple hit problems
because the wife is having an affair and the husband is screwing the kidnapped
girls they keep downstairs. 'If You Were Here' (MJ Dixon): woman who was abused
by her father hallucinates that he’s on a VHS tape and then attacking her. 'Sick
Little Boy' (Simon P Edwards): schizophrenic young man is confused by feelings
for his hot, abused stepmum. 'Young and Naïve' (Antoni McVay): young woman
kidnapped by psycho stalker imagines her revenge. 'Abort' (Yana Kolesnyk): East
European back street abortion leaves mother dead, baby alive; 12 years later it
takes revenge. 'Snow' (Davies): fairy tale allegory as paranoid older women hires
woodcutter to dismember stepdaughter. 'Masque of the Red Rape' (Robert Noel
Gifford): nutter videos himself torturing young woman. 'Monster' (Andy Edwards): murderous
young woman incarcerated in mental asylum kills staff and escapes. 'Precious' (Jason Wright): mother calls in team to exorcise possessed daughter. There is
also a brief story among the credits directed by Chris Yardley.
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